Thank you, Senator Landrieu. And, again, it is obvious, your leadership, by virtue of what you have just said.

I completely agree with Secretary Hagel's recommended changes to Article 60.

Do you believe that a commander should have that authority to overturn the decision of a military court?

The way Congress is operating is not the world that I want to see, either. And yet, we find that it often doesn't work.

the government played a very large role in its development.

The law is very clear: it says you cannot involve yourself in electioneering if you want this kind of tax-exempt status.

Well, the law as it is written is written, so any attempt to come back and say that we have to change or clarify the law seems to me to be the wrong question. The question is the administrative implementation of existing law when there are…

Well, Mr. Chairman, in conclusion, I would say that, if we could get the IRS to follow the law and the regulation that implemented it, we would not have this problem in the future.

I would hope that the administration would take some responsibility, if that is the IRS Commissioner, if that is the Secretary of Treasury, if indeed that is the President, and we would see some implementation of the law.

Whereas, Senator Hatch has pointed out from his standpoint that this was government run amok, it also seems to me that this was government that was impotent and that did not act.

Yet, what we have seen in the course of the last two campaign cycles is enormous money running through the 501(c)(4) organizations.

I thank the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. A good example--this isn't even a Federal district judge, this is court of appeals--we confirmed the judge 94 to 5, when we finally got a vote. That was Judge Adalberto Jordan, the first…